Author Archives: Susan

REALITY: Food Portions

Posted on June 13, 2005 by Susan

Spaghetti tonight, enough for six people though there are three.  Why can I no longer measure spaghetti into portions anywhere close anymore?  I wonder, remembering my single days, my younger days, when the last strand was the last I could … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Nutrition

Posted on June 13, 2005 by Susan

I’m hanging in there and hating it on the course.  Mostly because it’s so cram-jammed into eight weeks and there’s so very much to memorize.  Plus, I love food too much to analyze it this way.  Just got back from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Walls

Posted on June 13, 2005 by Susan

Separate worlds this morning, just as winter snow remains outdoors.  Wake up in dark cool familiarity.  Take my coffee cup outside the kitchen door into another world.  Sitting on the back step, even breaths are different; heavy, close with humid … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Endurance & Moving On

Posted on June 12, 2005 by Susan

Some kind of changes coming to the blogging world, but then, it is still fairly new and evolving.  One blogger this morning wondering why his hits have dropped, one deciding to drop the weblog and start serious writing.  I lost … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Pain

Posted on June 11, 2005 by Susan

Pounding headache all day yesterday.  Catholic in me lets me take one aspirin after many hours.  Finally at night an antihistimine–I knew that’s what I needed all along.  Rationale, I need to get some decent sleep, need to work come … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Setting

Posted on June 10, 2005 by Susan

Sometimes something hits you in the face and even with prior knowledge, I’m amazed at how thickheaded I can be.  I have most certainly been taught about setting, its importance to lay a framework of the story space where a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Hurry up and Wait

Posted on June 10, 2005 by Susan

Getting nervous.  The Writers Conference is just one week away, which means I need to have all the picture framing caught up and picked up next week, as well as get the outside work done because I will be pretty … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Gottados

Posted on June 10, 2005 by Susan

There seems to be no end in sight to the things that keep me from what I would rather be doing.  I am determined to get to the bottom of the pile of framing, and clean up the mess I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Dusk

Posted on June 9, 2005 by Susan

A thin slice of moon in the silver blue evening sky. Continue reading →

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WRITING: Connotation

Posted on June 9, 2005 by Susan

A form of show, not tell, I suppose. Just took a minute to write a bit as a scene presented itself, and was about to write, "I hate that."  Now last year, I would have written just that.  The 1st … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Susie One-Note

Posted on June 9, 2005 by Susan

As has always been my way, when I’m focused, I’m focused.  So you’ll be hearing much about literature this summer here at Spinning, and in the reading and writing of it.  Even moving out the piece I’m working on will … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: More on Publishing

Posted on June 9, 2005 by Susan

On Mystery of a Shrinking Violet, Barbara Klaser posts more on the publishing outlook and because of the many links involved, I’m copying her post here directly: How random is publishing today? If you’re an aspiring writer, and even if … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: My Daily Rebellion

Posted on June 9, 2005 by Susan

I refuse to weigh my food. Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Changing Life–and Death

Posted on June 9, 2005 by Susan

And not really the newest new media, but television.  And not the ads and what we buy, but career choices based upon the latest swath of programming. CSI.  I loved the first one, and am slowly working up an addiction … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Banner Image

Posted on June 8, 2005 by Susan

Rather strange, but I think this has happened before.  I’ve created a banner image in Adobe but can’t download it onto the weblog even though I’ve saved it as a jpeg.  I think what I did last time for Learning … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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